Firewall

1. Firewall C. Edward Chow CS691 – Chapter 26.3 of Matt BishopLinux Iptables Tutorial 1.1.16 by Oskar Andreasson

2. Outline of The Talk • Definition • Implement Firewall using Linux iptables

3. Firewall • Here is how Bob Shirey defines it in RFC 2828. • Firewall: • (I) An internetwork gateway that restricts data communication traffic to and from one of the connected networks (the one said to be "inside" the firewall) and thus protects that network's system resources against threats from the other network (the one that is said to be "outside" the firewall). (See: guard, security gateway.)

4. Firewall Network Configuration

5. DMZ • DeMilitarized Zone: a portion of a network that separate a purely internal network from an external network. • Guard (Firewall): a host that mediates access to a network, allowing/disallowing certain types of access on the basis of a configured policy. • Filtering firewall: firewall that performs access control based on the attributes of packet headers, rather than the content. • Proxy: an intermediate agent or serer that act on behalf of an endpoints without allowing a direct connection between two end points. • Proxy (Application Level) Firewall: firewall that uses proxies to perform access control. It can based on content and header info. • Content Switch/Sock Server are typical examples.

6. Security Policies • The DMZ servers are typically not allowed make connections to the intranet. • Systems in Internet not allowed to directly contact any systems in the intranet. • Systems in Intranet not allowed to directly contact any systems in the Internet. (least privilege principle) • Systems in DMZ serve as mediator (go-between). Password/certificate/credential are presented for allowing mediating services. • No dual interface from DMZ servers directly to systems Intranet except the inner firewall. • Intranet system typically uses Private LAN addresses: 10.x.y.z; 172.a.x.z (16<=a<=32); 192.168.x.y.

7. Security Policy • Complete Mediation Principle: inner firewall mediate every access involves with DMZ and Intranet. • Separation of privileges; with different DMZ server running different network functions; firewall machines are different entities than the DMZ servers. • It is also related to least common mechanism principle. • The outer firewall allows HTTP/HTTPS and SMTP access to DMZ server. Need to detect virus, malicious logic.

8. Linux Iptables/Netfilter • In Linux kernel 2.4 we typically use the new netfilter package with iptables commands to setup the firewall. • The old package called IP chains will be deprecated. • http://www.netfilter.org/ is main site for the package. • We are using iptables 1.2.6a. • Tutorial and HOW-TO manual is available there.

9. NIC to Internet (eth0) Incoming Packet Journey through Linux Firewall mangle TablePREROUTING Chain iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i eth0 -d 128.168.60.12 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.10.2 nat TablePREROUTING Chain RoutingDecision mangle TableFORWARD Chain filter TableFORWARD Chain iptables -t nat -A FORWARD –p ALL -s 128.199.66.1 -j REJECTiptables -A FORWARD -p ALL -s 128.200.0.2 -j LOG --log-prefix "bad guy:"iptables -A FORWARD -p ALL -s 128.200.0.2 -j DROP mangle TablePOSTROUTING Chain nat TablePOSTROUTING Chain NIC to Intranet

10. DNAT and Iptables command • DNAT: Destination Network Address Translation. • It translates the external IP addresses to the corresponding internal IP address of DMZ servers. • iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i eth0 -d 128.168.60.12 --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.10.2 • -t specify the type of tables-A Append to a specific chain-p specify the protocol-i specify the incoming interface-d specify the matched destination IP address in packet-j specify the “target” or operation to be performed.--to-destination substitute the destination IP address.

11. NIC to Intranet Outgoing Packet Journey through Linux Firewall mangle TablePREROUTING Chain nat TablePREROUTING Chain RoutingDecision mangle TableFORWARD Chain iptables -t nat -A FORWARD -s 192.168.10.10 -j REJECTCertain system in Intranet not allowed out filter TableFORWARD Chain mangle TablePOSTROUTING Chain iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE nat TablePOSTROUTING Chain NIC to Intranet (eth0)

12. SNAT vs. MASQUERADE • SNAT which translates only the IP addresses, the port number is preserved unchanged. • However, it requires that you have the equal number of outgoing IP addresses as IP address in your intranet that are carrying in the source address field of the outgoing packets. • Since it does not have to search for the available port or available IP address, SNAT is faster than MASQUERADE. • For smaller organization which only have a few static IP addresses, MASQUERADE is the typically method.

13. Incoming Packet Journey to Server in Firewall NIC to Internet (eth0) mangle TablePREROUTING Chain iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i eth0 -d 128.168.60.11 --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.10.1 nat TablePREROUTING Chain RoutingDecision mangle TableINPUT Chain filter TableINPUT Chain Example: A VPN gateway running on firewallalpha.uccs.edu LocalProcess

14. Outgoing Packet Journey from Inside Firewall LocalProcess mangle TableOUTPUT Chain nat TableOUTPUT Chain filter TableOUTPUT Chain mangle TablePOSTROUTING Chain nat TablePOSTROUTING Chain NIC to Internet (eth0)

15. IP Tables and Packet Journey

16. DMZ Example • See http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#RCDMZFIREWALLTXT

17. Sonicwall Pro 300 Firewall • A firewall device with 3 ports: Internet, DMZ, Intranet. • http://www.sonicwall.com/products/pro330.html • Restriction: NAT does not apply to servers on DMZ. Need to use public IP address. • You can use one-to-one NAT for systems in Intranet. • Support VPN. IPSec VPN, compatible with other IPSec-compliant VPN gateways • Bundled with 200 VPN clients for remote users • Supports up to 1,000 VPN Security Associations* • 3 DES (168-Bit) Performance: 45 Mbps • ICSA Certified, Stateful Packet Inspection firewall • Unlimited number of users • Concurrent connections: 128,000 • Firewall performance: 190 Mbps (bi-directional)

18. Stateful Firewall • The most common firewall now. • It checks the state of the connections, say TCP. and discards packets with incorrect msg types. • http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html#TCPCONNECTIONS

19. Lab Testbed for Exercise

20. Firewall Facts • (C) A firewall typically protects a smaller, secure network (such as a corporate LAN, or even just one host) from a larger network (such as the Internet). The firewall is installed at the point where the networks connect, and the firewall applies security policy rules to control traffic that flows in and out of the protected network. • (C) A firewall is not always a single computer. For example, a firewall may consist of a pair of filtering routers and one or more proxy servers running on one or more bastion hosts, all connected to a small, dedicated LAN between the two routers. The external router blocks attacks that use IP to break security (IP address spoofing, source routing, packet fragments), while proxy servers block attacks that would exploit a vulnerability in a higher layer protocol or service. The internal router blocks traffic from leaving the protected network except through the proxy servers. The difficult part is defining criteria by which packets are denied passage through the firewall, because a firewall not only needs to keep intruders out, but usually also needs to let authorized users in and out.